Musk has been under scrutiny after making a hand gesture resembling a Nazi salute at a Trump inauguration event earlier the week.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a nonprofit committed to fighting antisemitism, criticized tech billionaire Elon Musk for his social media post on Thursday that used Nazi puns to taunt those who

Elon Musk, billionaire adviser to President Donald Trump, leaned into the accusations that his Monday salute was a “Sieg heil” gesture with a series of trollish Nazi puns on X. “Don’t say Hess to Nazi accusations!” Musk wrote Thursday, referring to German Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess.

The Anti-Defamation League slammed Elon Musk after he posted a series of Nazi-related puns on X when defending his gesture at an inauguration rally for President Trump that many claimed was a Nazi salute.

After the world's richest man made what fascism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat called a "Nazi salute," one leading authority on anti-Semitism gave him the "benefit of the doubt." But any goodwill between the two seems to be gone after Musk made several references to Nazi Germany on his X account.

After the Israeli prime minister defended Musk following controversy over a gesture at a Trump rally, the tech entrepreneur posted puns using the names of notorious Nazi officials.

The ADL’s rebuttals to Musk, who has been active on Twitter to defend himself against those who accused him of performing a “Sieg Heil” salute while on stage at an inauguration event for Trump on Monday, stand in contrast with the organization defending him following the incident.

What does it mean to be “even-handed” to the Holocaust? Is Facebook trying to be like Switzerland? Does neutrality to Nazism make one complicit with it? Disinterest does nothing for the victims of those lies.

Sieg Denial Elon Musk's edgelord tendencies are alienating even his defenders in the Jewish advocacy world. After making what was almost certainly a double "Sieg Heil" salute at President Donald Trump's inaugural festivities,

Elon Musk has seemingly done the unthinkable and shown his knowledge of Nazi history is far deeper than the ADL would like the public to believe.

The Holocaust was a singularly evil event, and it is inappropriate and offensive to make light of it,’ the head of the ADL rebuked Donald Trump’s ‘best buddy’